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Keywords: Mir, Moon, spacecraft
![Планеты на Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/06/0001217364/sunplanets_soho_big.preview.jpg)
5.05.2000
Today, all five naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) plus the Moon and the Sun will at least approximately line-up. As viewed from planet Earth, they will be clustered within about 26 degrees, the closest alignment for all these celestial bodies since February 1962, when there was a solar eclipse!
![Спутник Урана номер 18](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/05/0001210802/u10_vg2_big.preview.jpg)
31.05.1999
The discovery was there for the taking. An image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 as it passed the giant planet 13 years ago apparently recorded a moon that had since gone unnoticed. The image on which Uranus' 18th moon was discovered was freely available from NASA. Erich Karkoschka (U.
![Покрытие Регула](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/14/0001217806/occult_orman_99.preview.jpg)
2.08.1999
On May 21, viewed from the continental US, a star winked out as it passed behind the dark limb of the first-quarter Moon. The star, Regulus, is hotter than the sun, about 69 light-years distant, and shines in Earth's skies as the brightest star in the constellation Leo, the Lion.
![Юпитер: спутник, кольцо и облака](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192425/jupir_nic.preview.jpg)
21.11.1997
An inner moon, an edge-on, planet-girdling ring, and high altitude cloud bands are visible in this mosaic of infrared images of gas giant Jupiter. The moon Metis, 25 miles wide and about 80,000 miles from the planet, is the bright spot at the upper right.
![Спутники Юпитера: Теба, Амальтея, Метида](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/07/0001217367/jupsmallmoons_gal.preview.gif)
8.05.2000
The robot spacecraft Galileo in orbit around Jupiter has recently photographed the inner moons of Jupiter in greater detail than ever before. These pictures of Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis are shown to scale, and reveal details as small as three kilometers across. Amalthea, by contrast, has a total length of about 200 kilometers.
![Под солнечным парусом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/03/08/0001187394/solarsail_msfc.preview.jpg)
8.03.2003
Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails. It is now widely recognized that...
![Вулканический Ио](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178919/io1.preview.gif)
3.08.1995
In 1610, Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens and discovered that the planet Jupiter had four bright moons. The innermost of these Galilean moons, Io, turned out to be one of the most exotic objects in the solar system.
![Новые спутники для Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162403/saturnnewmoon_eso_big.preview.jpg)
3.11.2000
Which planet has the most moons? For now, it's Saturn. Four newly discovered satellites bring the ringed planet's total to twenty-two, just edging out Uranus' twenty-one for the most known moons in the solar system. Of course, the newfound Saturnian satellites are not large and photogenic.
![Луна во время затмения в инфракрасном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/19/0001191010/lunarecl_msx.preview.jpg)
10.01.1997
Last September's total lunar eclipse disappointed many observers in the Eastern and Midwestern US who were cursed with cloudy skies. However, the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite had a spectacular view from Earth orbit and SPIRIT III, an onboard imaging infrared telescope, was used to repeatedly image the moon during the eclipse.
![Покатайтесь на лыжах на Энцеладе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/01/24/0001174459/enceladus_voyager2.preview.jpg)
24.01.2002
A small inner moon of Saturn, Enceladus is only about 500 kilometers in diameter. But the cold, distant world does reflect over 90 percent of the sunlight it receives, giving its surface about the same reflectivity as new-fallen snow.
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